Pedro Martinez Eyeing Full Season In 2010

How about bringing him to the yankees? Should be fun watching him playing for his daddys

Dear Ned Coletti

Stay away. It kind of worked with Manny.

It didn't work with Pedro's brother. It didn't work with Nomar, Alomar, Maddux, Kent, Jones, Gonzalez, Sweeney, Ausmus, or David Wells either.

We don't need any over-the-hill all-stars.

Stay young.

Thanks,

Dodger Fans

Pedro would be a lot more effictive if he only pitched the 2nd half of the season but I am sure someone will bite and offer him a 1 year deal and he will be pitching for the whole year.

Offense wise, yes.
The Dodger's being the exception, as Pedro would be pitching for them.

ThinkBlue

You got beat in consecutive years by the NL East, so on that point Yes. The Phils are obviously the class of the entire NL and Maybe Major League Baseball overall. The Nationals offense is comparable to anyone in that division. They only need pitching.The Marlins are two veterans from really competing with the ENTIRE NL. The Braves need one or two bats and The Mets, while I hate them, can be potent if everyone is clicking.

Put together an allstar team of NL East and NL West and see who wins...

I personally think the NL East comes out on top in this one...but, the NL West has some young guns that are still emerging.

In five years, the NL West could an NL Allstar team (Sandoval, Kemp, Ethier, Lincecum, Cain, Carlos Gonzales, Ianetta, Posey, Upton, Reynolds, AGonz (who will be gone), Kershaw, Billingsley, etc...they have a lot of young talent.)

This was the NL East 3 years ago and see where it has got them...

I'm confused as to how the Phillies beating the Dodgers equates to the entire NL East being better than the entire NL West.

4/5 NL West teams had winning records against NL East teams this year.

Just because the Phillies are better than the Dodgers, doesn't mean the entire division is better.

I'm a Phillies fan (obviously) and I agree. I'm not so sure the Phils are that much better than the Dodgers...I really enjoy watching the Dodgers and their OF (mainly Kemp and Ethier).

The Mets are better than what they were last year (but I'm not sure if they are better than San Fran if they sign an impact bat). The Rox and Marlins are similar, but the Rockies are a better team. And the Braves are better than any team in the West not named the Dodgers or Rockies.

It's close, but then again...we do have the Nationals and you do have the Padres. The true question is what team is worse, lol. I'm think the Pads are worse than the Nats, but it's close.

How about bringing him to the yankees? Should be fun watching him playing for his daddys

Posted by: yankees#28 | November 16, 2009 at 05:05 PM

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You're kidding, right? The Yankees don't need another old pitcher as they've got one already in Pettitte, who is a lot more dependable than Pedro at this point. They need some stability and reliability with their remaining pitching spots.

What WOULD be fun would be the Red Sox signing him so the Yankees can beat him more often.

And I do consider the Phillies the NL team to beat, especially since obtaining Lee. Back to back WS appearances aren't easy to do. As good as the Dodgers and Cardinals are, they haven't been able to do it, let alone get to the WS (Dodgers).

Back to the Yankees, if they can get some decent back-end rotation help (resign Andy) and keep/replace Matsui/Damon's production, they'll be back again.

It's close, but then again...we do have the Nationals and you do have the Padres. The true question is what team is worse, lol. I'm think the Pads are worse than the Nats, but it's close.

Posted by: ChasenWerth | November 16, 2009 at 06:08 PM

It's actually not close at all. You may have missed it, but the Padres finished with 75 wins last season. That puts them at 12 games under .500 compared to the Nats' 44 games under. The Pads had a very good August and September.

Dont mean to take anything away from Coghlan...he did have a fine Rookie season...Im not aginst Coghlan, Just Pro Happ...there were times (I thought) before the Lee deal, when Hamels was struggling, that Happ was the best pitcher in that rotation...and unlike Hanson, Happ was up and on that staff most of the year. For a two month span(once again pre Lee trade) if you take J.A. out of that rotation...the NL East may look alot different...Just wanted to give the man some love. I never understand R.O.Y. voting, this year made me think back to the Chipper Jones / Hideo Nomo decision. In no way am I comparing Coghlan to Chipper or Happ to Nomo...But I definatly tought Chipper was a shoe in that year, and thought Happ would get more attention this year, he was a big part of gettin his team to the W.S.

OK lets compare rosters here:
First base: Howard (east) Agon(west): slight advantage east

second base: Utley (east)doesn't matter for the west advantage east

SS: Hanley(east) Tulo (west) advantage east

3rd this tough for me between Zimmerman and wright but either way its better than Reynolds advantage east

RF: Upton vs Werth this is a tough one extremely slight edge to Upton

CF Beltran vs. Kemp Edge Beltran

LF:Manny vs. Ibanez edge Manny

SP Timmy vs Johan. I dont know who wins this match up you can go with Johan more Cy young's longer more productive career.

closers:Broxton vs Krod. well we all know what happens to broxton in big games just ask stairs and jroll. advantage east

overall the east would beat down the west hands down.

beastofNLEast : "The Phils are obviously the class of the entire NL and Maybe Major League Baseball overall".

I really hope you are kidding.

They are the second best team in baseball. i hope your not kidding.

I thought the Phillies made it pretty clear that they are much better than the dodgers when they beat them in 5 games the last two NLCS series.

i personally wouldnt objet to the cardinals signing pedro to a one year deal, while a couple of their young pitchers develop. more so if they can't resign pineiro. the only objection would be if they resign smoltz. either one would be a decent number 4 or 5 starter, at least in my opinion